An Old Womans Reflections

Author : Peig Sayers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192812391
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Old Woman's Reflections written by Peig Sayers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known affectionately as "the Queen of Gaelic Storytellers," Peig Sayers here offers reminiscences of the daily events that made up her life (such as seal catching, collecting turf for roofs, preparing for a funeral wake) alongside the tragedies of drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the news of the 1916 revolution in Dublin City. It is a unique record of an essential part of the oral Gaelic tradition.

Author : Peig Sayers
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789122376
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Old Woman’s Reflections written by Peig Sayers and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peig Sayers was ‘the Queen, of Gaelic story-tellers’. She was born in the parish of Dunquin in Kerry and married into a neighbouring island, the Great Blasket, where she spent most of her life. Students and scholars of the Irish language came from far and wide to visit her. She was, as Robin Flower wrote in The Western Island, ‘a natural orator, with so keen a sense of the turn of phrase and the lifting rhythm appropriate to Irish that her words could be written down as they leave her lips, and they would have the effect of literature with no savour of the artificiality of composition’. Her Reflections are a collection of her fireside stories, most of them tales of her friends and neighbours on the Great Blasket, the island that also produced Maurice O’Sullivan’s Twenty Tears A-Growing and Tόmas ό Crohan’s The Islandman.

Author : Marion Woodman
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573245661
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming Home to Myself written by Marion Woodman and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation book for women seeking to raise to their self-esteem & connect more fully with themselves.

Author : Xiaolan Zhao
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373789
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections of the Moon on Water written by Xiaolan Zhao and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Canada’s most trusted and beloved health practitioners introduces Western women to the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine and the time-tested practices that have helped optimize physical and emotional health for centuries. Since establishing her practice in Canada twelve years ago, Dr. Xiaolan Zhao has treated thousands of women suffering from fatigue, PMS, infertility, depression, menopausal symptoms and other gynecological disorders — health problems that are all too common in the West but less so in China, where traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been an integral part of women’s lives for thousands of years. As a physician originally trained in Western medicine who later took up the practice of TCM, Dr. Zhao has seen how effective the Chinese approach is for her patients, and she’d like to see more Canadian women incorporating its wisdom and practices in their own lives, as a complement to their regular health care. In Reflections of the Moon on Water, she explains the unique philosophy behind the healing tradition, a way of thinking that is liberating and empowering for women. Sharing stories from her own life and the lives of her patients, Dr. Zhao shows that we have nothing to reject about our feminine selves, and explains how we can develop new relationships with our bodies and our emotions. There is so much every woman can do in terms of ongoing and preventative self-care to improve her health and vitality and prevent illness. By making simple changes in diet, exercise routine, sex life and the way we deal with stress and our emotions, we can profoundly improve our health now and into the future. "Many Westerners think Chinese medicine sounds too complicated or too esoteric. They find discussions of yin and yang, or the life energy known as qi intimidating. In fact, Chinese medicine is very simple and accessible. Many of the herbs we use are ordinary ones. Sometimes, I might treat a patient’s sinus condition with eucalyptus or other familiar herbs, and she’ll say, "Oh that smells just like what my grandmother used to give me." So much of Chinese medicine is based on intuition and common sense. Although the history behind TCM is 5,000 years old — 4,500 years older than our scientific traditions — it is knowledge open to anyone." —excerpt from Reflections of the Moon on Water

Author : Annie Koshi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432784133
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections written by Annie Koshi and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections is a collection of poems, which the author has been writing at different stages of her emotional phase. Some of the poems sound overtly feminist. However, the author wants her voice to be heard across genders. Positive thinking, change, hope, faith, and forgiving are mostly the key tones running through the poems. All readers, irrespective of their nationality, ethnicity, or any kind of affiliation, will definitely find in these poems some lesson or experience to share in flashback or look forward to.

Author : Ruth Picardie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805066128
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before I Say Goodbye written by Ruth Picardie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, letters, and personal recollections in which Ruth Picardie records her feelings in the year before she died of breast cancer.

Author : Donna L. Torrisi
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647423120
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tattoo Monologues written by Donna L. Torrisi and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body art can tell personal stories. When linked to a difficult or traumatic life, it can even restore one’s sense of well-being. As director of a community health center for twenty-seven years and as a nurse practitioner for over forty years, Donna Torrisi became fascinated with the stories behind her patients’ tattoos. When she began to ask her female patients about their markings, themes of trauma, pain, and loss emerged, and it became clear that the art indelibly marked on their bodies had played a part in their healing and redemption. The women featured in Tattoo Monologues demonstrate vulnerability and courage as they share both their personal tattoo narratives and photos of the images on their bodies. These women represent diverse cultures, ethnicities, and professional contexts, but they are united by their use of tattoos as a tool for processing traumatic life experiences. The images, stories, emotions, and journeys in this book collectively tell a compelling story. A story of skin and ink. A story of trauma and adversity. A story of courage and resilience.

Author : Andrea Carlisle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870712579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Was an Old Woman written by Andrea Carlisle and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In There Was An Old Woman, Andrea Carlisle presents a collection of personal essays that explore this time of life and consider misperceptions, hard truths, needs, and often beautiful complexity. This book is a rallying cry and a rejection of received wisdom about what old age should look like and how old people--especially older women--should feel and behave. In her view, old age is a long walk, not a singular moment, or even a few years, in time. This period of life needs literature for sustenance, with voices that inspire and challenge, as much as any other. Carlisle digs into what old age feels like, how it works, and the ways old women look at themselves, based on the cultural myths handed to them, as well as how they are perceived and marginalized by others. She takes on issues of aging both common (caregiving; vanity; grief; the importance of movement) and uncommon (the expansion of consciousness and curiosity in old age; the impact of how stories about older women are told, and the way the old are excluded as central characters from almost all of literature). She discusses intergenerational bonds, the many forms of ageism, poverty, loneliness, erasure, friendship, art, and a variety of other topics.

Author : Sharon Cohen Ainsfeld
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1580236146
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Passover Companion written by Sharon Cohen Ainsfeld and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful—and empowering—gathering of women’s voices transmitting Judaism’s Passover legacy to the next generation. The Women’s Passover Companion offers an in-depth examination of women’s relationships to Passover as well as the roots and meanings of women’s seders. This groundbreaking collection captures the voices of Jewish women—rabbis, scholars, activists, political leaders and artists—who engage in a provocative conversation about the themes of the Exodus and exile, oppression and liberation, history and memory, as they relate to contemporary women’s lives. Whether seeking new insights into the text and traditions of Passover or learning about women’s seders for the first time, both women and men will find this collection an inspiring introduction to the Passover season and an eye-opening exploration of questions central to Jewish women, to Passover and to Judaism itself.

Author : Joan Borysenko
Publisher : Berkley Trade
ISBN 13 : 9781573226516
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Book of Life written by Joan Borysenko and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of "Minding the Body, Mending the Mind" reveals the interconnected loop of the mind, body, and spirit in a pioneering book that will teach women how to maximize their health and well-being as well as discover the extraordinary power that comes with each stage of the feminine life cycle.